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Simply Smashing Pumpkins

At Halloween it can get overwhelming trying to decide how to get your house ready to celebrate. It’s the first holiday of the season (and the best, in my opinion). Sure, you can carve a myriad of designs into your pumpkin, or squash or turnip, but what else could you possibly do?

Here’s a list of my favorite alternative pumpkin decorating techniques:

Paper mache old encyclopedia pages onto a pumpkin. Or entries from a pictorial dictionary. Simply cover that gourd up with black and white images and text and you’re set.

Lace covered. Find black or metallic lace, using a hot glue gun or super glue affix the lace to the pumpkin. Make a straight seem on the bottom or at the back of the pumpkin.

Black velvet covered pumpkins are likely to steal the show. If you don’t want to waste any of your precious velvet scraps, you could also sew them into small filled pumpkins for table top decoration.

Plaid pumpkins. Paint plaid stripes onto your pumpkin using acrylic paints. Use masking tape to make smooth lines. Use 3-4 colors, unless you choose a white pumpkin, in which case you’ll only need 2-3.

Ribbon covered pumpkins are the easiest variation. You can choose to tie, glue or pin the ribbon to the flesh of the pumpkin. Any color or texture will do. You can decide to cover the entire pumpkin, hang it by the ribbon or just simply make a bow.

Etched pumpkins are all the rage. Thinly scrape out a design that will glow from the candle lit within, but do not puncture the walls of the pumpkin entirely.

Use white pumpkins to make lace. Cut an intricate design all over your pumpkin to create the illusion of fabric.

Emma Rae Curtis is a blogger, researcher and Halloween enthusiast! She writes all about Halloween parties, costumes and of course, decor.

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